Abiqua
Well-Known Member
I gotta jump in a say with some caution....
I have seen the crazy looking "polyploids" but as this seems to be a phenotype without genotype data at the moment. If it has multiple sets, great, but looking "polyploid" isn't an indicator of polyploid, even these supposed examples.
Part of the problem is that we don't actually know what phenotypic traits a true polyploid exhibits...and extrapolating on that further, while nature seems to have they are rare, we don't even understand the mechanism of polyploidism itself if it indeed exists...and I would be willing to bet that environmental stressors play a part in creating that genotype, maybe just as similarly in the ease that some subspecies seem to go from being monoecious to dioecious maybe in a single generation. Although that may be a bad comparison, since those genotypes are being expressed fairly clearly at times...female parts/male parts....which give us notice of the switch phenotypically that we can then identify genotypically almost with certainty....Almost because of things like the "super" male, which blurs the line...but again, what phenotype would indicate a polyploid....For all the examples of the "polyploid" plants that are out there.....and there are hundreds if not thousands...Not a sinle one has any accompaning Gene data to back that up...That's all I am say...Proof in the Gene Pudding.......maybe more so in this case than ANY other, or at least for the typical "species" of Kanna we are familiar with...
I have seen the crazy looking "polyploids" but as this seems to be a phenotype without genotype data at the moment. If it has multiple sets, great, but looking "polyploid" isn't an indicator of polyploid, even these supposed examples.
Part of the problem is that we don't actually know what phenotypic traits a true polyploid exhibits...and extrapolating on that further, while nature seems to have they are rare, we don't even understand the mechanism of polyploidism itself if it indeed exists...and I would be willing to bet that environmental stressors play a part in creating that genotype, maybe just as similarly in the ease that some subspecies seem to go from being monoecious to dioecious maybe in a single generation. Although that may be a bad comparison, since those genotypes are being expressed fairly clearly at times...female parts/male parts....which give us notice of the switch phenotypically that we can then identify genotypically almost with certainty....Almost because of things like the "super" male, which blurs the line...but again, what phenotype would indicate a polyploid....For all the examples of the "polyploid" plants that are out there.....and there are hundreds if not thousands...Not a sinle one has any accompaning Gene data to back that up...That's all I am say...Proof in the Gene Pudding.......maybe more so in this case than ANY other, or at least for the typical "species" of Kanna we are familiar with...